@inproceedings{596521d98d7d4858848ab2c61fdfcc9a,
title = "The Significance of the Prior-Smart Correspondence for the Rise of Tense-Logic",
abstract = "The correspondence between Arthur Norman Prior and J.J.C. Smart was significant for Prior{\textquoteright}s development of tense-logic. Prior was influential in making Smart sceptical about Wittgenstein{\textquoteright}s view on pseudo-relations. Prior appears to have convinced Smart of the superiority of subsuming logical relations under the scope of operators. When Prior, however, disclosed the invention of tense-logic to Smart, it is clear from the correspondence that Smart did not find Prior{\textquoteright}s tensed operators convincing. Indeed, it turns out that Smart warned Prior against presenting tense-logic at the John Locke Lectures. Two questions are raised with regard to Smart{\textquoteright}s warning: Why did Smart warn Prior against presenting tense-logic at the John Locke Lectures, and why was Prior{\textquoteright}s tense-logic so well received? An argument is tentatively given based on the novelty of Prior{\textquoteright}s tense-logical operators to account for what Van Cleve(2016)[21]calls objectivity without objects.",
author = "David Jakobsen",
year = "2017",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-87-7112-677-8",
series = "Logic and Philosophy of Time",
publisher = "Aalborg Universitetsforlag",
pages = "63--82",
booktitle = "Logic and Philosophy of Time",
note = "Workshop on time and modality in Prior{\textquoteright}s logic and philosophy ; Conference date: 30-05-2017 Through 01-06-2017",
}